TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 June 2012 01:13:49PM 5 points [-]

Which ought not be surprising. Governments are nonhuman environment-optimizing systems that many people expect to align themselves with human values, despite not doing the necessary work to ensure that they will.